Beginner Gardening: "Wild" garden vs. tidy gardens which do you prefer, 1 by wildflower525

wildflower525 wrote:
SOOOO pretty! Thanks to you all who shared pictures.

My yard is trying to flower this year but it sure is having a hard time making up for all the water I didn't give it last year with the water restrictions.

I have to say I like the more tidy look but I have many LARGE Chinese Elms on both sides of my home that my neighbors own and I could not afford mulch when I made my gardens so I made the "living mulch" with plants and it sure looks wild. :)

I did purchase a little mulch this year and some soaker hoses to help water and pulled out many of the repeat plants I started from seed a few years back...Here it a shot of my bench arbor so far this year.